| Edmund Clarence Stedman, ed. (1833–1908). A Victorian Anthology, 1837–1895. 1895. |
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| The Whaups |
| | | Robert Louis Stevenson (1850–94) |
| | | | | To S. R. C. |
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| “BLOWS the wind to-day, and the sun and the rain are flying— | |
| Blows the wind on the moors to-day and now, | |
| Where about the graves of the martyrs the whaups are crying, | |
| My heart remembers how! | |
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| “Gray, recumbent tombs of the dead in desert places, | 5 |
| Standing stones on the vacant, red-wine moor, | |
| Hills of sheep, and the homes of the silent vanished races | |
| And winds austere and pure! | |
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| “Be it granted me to behold you again in dying, | |
| Hills of home! and I hear again the call— | 10 |
| Hear about the graves of the martyrs the pee-wees crying, | |
| And hear no more at all.” | |
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